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Jim Carrey's Scrooge is collecting holiday donations from movie fans with a $31 million opening weekend to take the No. 1 spot with his new take on "A Christmas Carol."...

FRIDAY PM/SATURDAY AM: If there's a Christmas-themed movie opening in November, then it's the official start of the holiday box office. In 1st place: Disney's A Christmas Carol. You may know it better as Charles Dickens' novel, but Disney had a problem with title rights, so now it's their pic. Hollywood predicted the 3-D family film to make at least $35M and possibly even $40M this weekend because of its wide release into 3,683 theaters domestically, including 2,035 3-D locations and 181 IMAX screens).

Have you ever heard of the “uncanny valley.” It’s a pop science theory which holds that, as robots and digitally created beings are rendered in increasingly realistic ways, we humans become increasingly repulsed by their appearance. The hit TV series “30 Rock” actually offers one of the most layman-friendly explanations available, after Tracy Jordan ...

Christmas will come to the Croisette, when Jim Carrey, Colin Firth, director Robert Zemeckis, and producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke from Disney's A Christmas Carol kick off the holiday season early at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, May 18. They will unveil the first look ever in 3-D of the classic Dickens tale as re-envisioned by director Robert Zemeckis.

The animated Disney films hit theaters November 6 and December 25 respectively.